Pope Benedict XVI has chosen as his new personal physician a cardiologist with strong ties to the Vatican.Dr. Patrizio Polisca, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Rome's Tor Vergata University and president of the commission of physicians who serve as consultants to the Congregation for Saints' Causes, was named personal physician to the pope and vice director of the Vatican health service June 15.
Dr. Polisca, 55, succeeds 84-year-old Dr. Renato Buzzonetti, who became personal physician to Pope John Paul II in 1978 and continued as the personal physician to Pope Benedict.
The personal physician travels with the pope on all his foreign trips; for the past nine years, Dr. Polisca has joined Dr. Buzzonetti on the papal flights as his assistant.
Buzzonetti, a specialist in gastroenterology and hematology, served as director of the Vatican health service from 1979 until 2005, when Pope Benedict named Dr. Giovanni Rocchi, a professor specializing in infectious diseases at Tor Vergata University, to the position.
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